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Persia was the name that the western world had given Iran. Inside Iran, the country was referred to as Aryanam, or "Land of the Aryans." So when in 1935 Reza Shah asked that the country be called "Iran" (derived from Aryanam), it was not a change of name, but being asked to be called by that which they'd always called themselves.

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